The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-09-24

A train load of excursionists going tC
Doncaster to witness races at that place
was run into by the Liverpool express
The guard box was smashed to atoms and
the first carriage of the express telescoped
by the next Twenty three persons were
killed and sixty injured. Many of the
wounded cannot recover.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
Gulf division of the Southern Kansas rail-
road at Gutherie, four miles south of Pur-
cell, Indian territory, Wednesday. A
light engine and construction train collid-
ed while both were moving at high rate
of speed. It is rumored that large
number of workmen were killed, but de-
tails are meagre. Most reports say that
eighteen were killed or wounded.
A passenger and freight train on the
Milwaukee raad near Inwood, Iowa, run
ming at high rate of speed, collided
Wednesday morning. Five train men
were killed outright. The passengers es-
capped uninjured. The accident occurred
at the edge of the bridge across the Sioux
river. and ten seconds difference would
have thrown both trains into the river,
causing much greater loss of life.
A meeting under the auspices of the
Sons of Ireland, new dynamite society,
was held at Cooper Union, New York,
Wednesday night. About 400 people
were present. Violent speeches were
made by Prof. Mizzeroff, the Russian nj
hilist, and others, an address was circulat-
ed declaring for constitutional agitation
and appealing for friends to support Miz-
zeroff, whose object is to prepare young
Irishmen to free Ireland by blowing up
London and other English cities.
A Rome special says the cholera afflict-
ing the inhabitants of Messina is of most
violent character, death frequently ensu-
ing an hour after the attack. The NOR
tality is now confined to the lower classes.
There is great misery among the people.
Gravediggers refuse to pursue their call
ing until compelled to by the troops.
The epidemic has appeared in the prisons.
The true state of affairs has not yet been
published 1t is reported that many cases
of cholera are occurring in Rome daily.
It is authoritatively reported that the
Massachusetts, Bay steel syndicate which
contemplated the erection of blast furna-
ces and extensive rolling mills near Seat
tie, W. T., and the development of iron
mines in the Cascade mountains near the
head waters of the Snoqualinle, have
abandoned this plan and decided to locate
the proposed plant near Clealum, on the
Cascade division of the Northern Pacific
railroad, where great abundance of ex-
cellent ores, coking coal and flux are
found in close proximity.
A daring train robbery occurred at Ma
vajo statian, Arizona, on Friday last. Five
masked men, who fired several shots at
the engineer, fireman and brakeman,
boarded the express car and robbed the
safe, which only contained small amount
of money, but did not interfere with the
passengers. They then mounted their
horses and rode off in a southerly direc-
ton. No person was hurt. The Atlantic
& Pacific railroad and Wells Fargo cx
press companies offer $1,000 each for the
arrest and conviction of the robbers.
Consul Baker, at Buenos Ayres, has
made long and interesting report to the
state department, giving in substance the
result of recent explorations of Terra Del
Fuego. Contrary to common belief, found
ed on the reports of early navigators, who
failed to penetrate into the interior, the
archipelago contains valuable farm lands,
forests and mineral deposits. The Argcn-
tine government is taking steps to colonlze
and develop the islands. A governor has
been appointed and thorough scientific
exploration is to be undertaken.
H. Riedel of Wilmington, Del, murder
ed his wife and nine-year old son Monday
and then made an unsuccessful attempt
to take his own life. Riedel says he was
seized with desire to die, and as he did
not want to leave his wife and children
unprotected, he took up pistol and crept
stealthily into the next room where they
were in bed, both asleep, and he shot them
through the head. Death resulted in
stantly. He aimed bullet at his own
head, and it glanced off the skull, but
made deep though not dangerous wound.
Riedel is in custody.
The jury in the case of Munchrath,
who has been on trial at Sioux City, Iowa,
for several days, for the murder of Rev.
Haddock year and half ago, returned
a verdict last Monday of manslaughter.
The extreme sentence in Iowa for this Of
fense is eight years. Sentence will not
be pronounced by the judge until Sep
tember 26. There is great probability
of further developments in the great case